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Chance and chaos / David Ruelle.
| Author/creator | Ruelle, David |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1991. |
| Description | vii, 195 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Hasard et chaos. English |
| Contents | Chance -- Mathematics and physics -- Probabilities -- Lotteries and horoscopes -- Classical determinism -- Games -- Sensitive dependence on initial condition -- Hadamard, Duhem, and Poincaré -- Turbulence : modes -- Turbulence : strange attractors -- Chaos : a new paradigm -- Chaos : consequences -- Economics -- Historical evolutions -- Quanta : conseptual framework -- Quanta : counting states -- Entropy -- Irreversibility -- Equilibrium statistical mechanics -- Boiling water and the gates of hell -- Information -- Complexity and algorithmic -- Complexity and Gödel's theorem -- True meaning of sex -- Intelligence. |
| Local note | Little-278393 |
| General note | Translation of: Hasard et chaos. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-195). |
| LCCN | 91009564 |
| ISBN | 0691085749 (alk. paper) : |